To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many sales of capital assets have arisen from closures of mental handicap hospitals; and if he will list the assets disposed of and the money raised by each sale.

To date, two small mental handicap hospitals have been sold, namely:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the number, for each regional health authority, of in-patient residents in health service facilities for patients with a mental handicap for each year since 1981; and what proportion of the reduction in numbers is due to discharge and what proportion due to death, in each regional health authority.

The table shows the number of patients with a mental handicap resident in mental handicap hospitals and units in Northern Ireland at 31 December each year from 1981 to 1990. It is not possible to calculate the proportions of the reduction due to discharge or to deaths as the data on admissions and discharges collected centrally do not relate to individual patients.